Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Singapore early Sunday morning to begin her tour of Asia, with traveling officials saying she will offer reassurances of Washington’s commitment to the region against a backdrop of the chaotic U.S. retreat from Afghanistan and Taliban takeover.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
A German national attempting to escape from Afghanistan has been shot, according to a statement from Germany’s deputy government spokeswoman on Friday.
Jay Collins, who was wounded multiple times in combat in Afghanistan, called the disastrous nature of Biden’s withdrawal “heartbreaking.”
President Joe Biden could activate the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). United States airline companies have been put on alert since Friday that the CRAF is a possibility, according to multiple reports.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, was caught on camera by a New York mayor’s press secretary, dancing around outside. At the same time, thousands of Americans are trapped in Afghanistan with Afghan allies.
Army National Guard veteran Alek Skarlatos believes the Biden administration failed the American citizens and Afghan allies now stuck in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan by mishandling the U.S. military’s exit from Bagram Airfield.
Derrick Van Orden, a former Navy SEAL and Republican running for an open seat in Wisconsin, told Breitbart News Saturday this weekend that every Secretary and Military Head that had something to do with the botched Afghanistan withdrawal should tender their resignation.
China is “the real winner” of the foreign policy “disaster” currently unfolding in Afghanistan after the Taliban terror group seized full control of the country earlier this week, China’s state-run Global Times argued on Thursday.
Tamika Hamilton, a military sergeant and California Republican looking to unseat Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) in the midterms, told Breitbart News Saturday this weekend that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was “catastrophic.”
Secretary of State Blinken admitted an internal cable from about two dozen diplomats warned of the potential fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday encouraged world leaders to help foment the Taliban’s “early political transition” in Afghanistan instead of “exerting excessive pressure” on the terror group, which seized control of the Afghan national capital, Kabul, this week.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) told Breitbart News Saturday that President Joe Biden must resign following his major foreign policy failure in Afghanistan as thousands of Americans remain stranded, blasting his “arrogant callousness” and false assertions that Americans are able to access the airport in Kabul as the condition in the area, under Taliban rule, worsens.
An elite Taliban unit released propaganda images this week, including one mocking the iconic World War Two photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. In the propaganda image, the Taliban fighters are shown raising their flag while wearing what appears to be U.S. and U.S. ally-made military gear.
Activist and former Afghan judge Najla Ayoubi alleged that the Taliban burned a woman for her alleged bad cooking.
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R), who has launched a Senate bid in Nevada challenging Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), told Breitbart News Saturday that the situation in Afghanistan serves as a snapshot of what a “leftist-led United States looks like” and expressed hope it offers the American people a stark contrast showing “just what the leftist idea of American leadership on the globe looks like in action.”
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) stated that the situation in Afghanistan is “a massive hostage crisis” and “a hot war,” and called for the U.S. to use troops and air assets
On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) said the Taliban has already interrupted U.S. operations in Afghanistan by obstructing access to the Kabul airport, and despite President Joe Biden’s vow that interruptions of American operations would be responded
More chaos unfolds in Afghanistan, and more reports now show Taliban terrorists are seizing U.S. passports from Afghan Americans trying to get in the gates of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to flee the country.
MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.
Actress Angelina Jolie ripped President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, which she called “sickening,” and “a betrayal and a failure impossible to fully understand.”
A majority of U.S. voters believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, a Reuters/Ipsos survey released this week found.
The Greek government has begun fortifying its northern land border with Turkey and the Greek coast guard is expected to be on alert to deploy into the eastern Aegean ahead of a possible surge of migrants from Afghanistan.
The Taliban is reportedly threatening to shoot evacuees on Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, the New York Times reported.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasted President Biden on Friday for his failure to address the situation in Afghanistan as Americans remain stranded in the country overrun by the Taliban.
Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a possible wave of migrants fleeing the country, Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven has vowed there will be no repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.
Haunted by a 2015 migration crisis fueled by the Syrian war, European leaders desperately want to avoid another large-scale influx of migrants from Afghanistan.
An Afghani man who has been wanted for years by Danish police in connection with a murder case is now calling on the Danish government to help him escape the Taliban.
The chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party condemned Democrat Sens. Blumenthal and Murphy for failing to condemn President Biden’s Afghanistan failure.
Operation Allies Refuge is smaller than other airlifts thus far, and would, at completion, likely be smaller than the airlift of Indian citizens from Iraq and Kuwait in 1990.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that President Joe Biden’s “tragic” failure in his withdrawal from Afghanistan “didn’t have to be this way.”
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said that he “did not hear” that Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul at a briefing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Tony Blinken, and
The Taliban released a propaganda video this week that allegedly depicts a commando unit of the terror group, seemingly equipped with high-tech arms, patrolling “sensitive areas” of Kabul, including the Afghan Presidential Palace, the Telegraph reported Thursday. “The video showed
Center for Renewing America announced the group filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) with the State and Defense Departments for dissent cables.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) demanded accountability for the $82 billion in U.S. military equipment stolen by the Taliban in a letter written to President Joe Biden Friday.
Afghans who fought alongside Americans are trapped in Afghanistan because panicked officials at the U.S. embassy “destroyed” their passports as the Taliban closed in on Kabul, a statement from a New Jersey congressman unveiled this week revealed.
Senate Republicans are slamming President Biden’s overarching “agenda of abandonment” as thousands of Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan with no clear instructions or way to get out of the country following the Taliban’s takeover.
The Biden White House called a lid minutes after the president’s Friday press conference on the situation in Afghanistan as an unknown number of Americans remain stranded in the country.
President Biden on Friday said his administration is in “constant contact with the Taliban” and claimed to be focused on getting Americans out of the country, although he said he cannot promise that it will come “without risk of loss” despite his assertion that his administration warned the jihadist organization that any attack on U.S. forces, or disruption of U.S. operations at the airport, will be met with “swift and forceful response.”
Many planes are reportedly leaving Afghanistan nearly empty while private organizations are begging the U.S. government, to no avail, to let them charter private flights to airlift more American citizens and Afghans who assisted the U.S. mission.
